Charles Trollope

General Sir Charles Trollope (21 October 1808 – 5 July 1888) was a British Army officer who served as colonel of the 1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry.

Military career Trollope was commissioned as an ensign in the 17th Regiment of Foot on 19 November 1825. After serving in the West Indies and in New Brunswick, he became commanding officer of the reserve battalion and was deployed to Cephalonia defending the island from insurgents between 1848 and 1850. and colonel of the 1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry in July 1881.

There is a memorial to Trollope at St Michael and All Angels' Church at Uffington in Lincolnshire.

Family Trollope was married twice. Firstly to Frances Lord who died in 1862. Secondly to Cordelia Murray who survived him, dying in 1909.